Betty Gray

Betty Gray (1920–2018) was a female Welsh international table tennis player.[1][2]

Betty Gray
Personal information
Nationality Wales
Born(1920-08-20)20 August 1920
Resolven, Neath
Died12 August 2018(2018-08-12) (aged 97)
Medal record
Representing  Wales
World Table Tennis Championships
Bronze medal – third place1951Women's Team

Table tennis career

She started playing at the age of 19 in 1939 at the Young Conservatives' Club, Swansea.[3]

She won a bronze medal in the 1951 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Audrey Bates and Audrey Coombs for Wales.[4]

She played more than 250 times for Wales[5] and for 25 consecutive years she won the Swansea and District Championship Cup.[6]

Awards

She received an MBE and in 2012 was chosen to be a torch bearer when the 2012 Olympic Torch toured Swansea.[7]

Later life

Betty was the President of the Welsh Table Tennis Association. She died in 2018.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. "Betty Gray obituary".
  3. "Swansea table tennis champion hits 90". BBC Wales. 20 August 2010.
  4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  5. "Table tennis 'warrior' Betty Gray dies aged 96". BBC News. 13 August 2018.
  6. "How Betty Gray became a Welsh table-tennis legend". Wales Online. 21 November 2010.
  7. "Betty Gray MBE". Swansea & District Table Tennis League.


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